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By Emphas.is team

At emphas.is we have produced 50+ stories by 60 journalists in 60 countries by putting the people who want to tell a story in touch with the people who want them. Now we need your support to continue giving the issues you care about the coverage they need.

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BONS AMIS

By Zumstein Michaël

« Bons Amis » is a cross-media inquiry into the difficult reconciliation in Ivory Coast, after the 2011 post-electoral crisis that led to the death of over 3000 people. It's needed to avoid future crisis, and bring awareness to the importance of fair justice.

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Looking into the eyes of Made in China

By Lucas Schifres

Looking into the eyes of Made in China is an immersive journey behind the “Made in China” labels of our everyday products. In my book project we get to meet the people who manufacture our stuff and look at them straight in the eyes.

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The Naked City Project - Rome

By The Naked City Project Committee

Naked City Project is a collective photographic investigation of Rome. It is a 'social' study of the city and a collaboration of 60 photographers, researchers, tech specialists and graphic designers. Its main output is an innovative 'open data' platform.

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Tide

By Antony Sojka

This new STUDENT TALENT project aims to portray a very unique place in the German North Sea called the Halligen, a group of ten tiny islands with a population ranging from 2 to 100 inhabitants per island.

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ΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΙ (The attendants)

By Myrto Papadopoulos

The aim of this project, is to present the world of prostitution and trafficking in recession- stricken Greece, to raise peoples awareness and to point out the health issues that have arisen from the increase of the sexually transmitted diseases.

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Affinities

By Jillian Edelstein

Elective Affinities: A series of portraits exploring the relationships between the individuals involved in creative collaborations. Jillian plans to continue this project in order to turn it into a book.

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UNDER PRESSURE

By Guia Besana

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). Under Pressures, my new project, uses staged images that describe real themes involving contemporary women and their neurosis and conflicts but presented with a twist.

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The Seven Cities

By Matt Eich

The Seven Cities is an exploration of my home on the coast of Virginia and will interweave my family’s narrative with that of the community while looking at the region’s economic dependence on the military industrial complex.

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